Just starting this thread as a place to document the journey on my Northern MN property. Last season was the first year we hunted it.
I closed on the 80 acre parcel in November of 2017, in the middle of our 3 week gun season. Unfortunately, we had a pretty severe blizzard that weekend so didn't hunt but one day, for a couple hours. We didn't see any deer, but did see a pack of wolves.
I had Jeff Sturgis up to have a look and he gave me a working plan for the property.
There was a single winding trail right up the middle of the property. Having been logged about 15 years ago, everything else was a thick mess of poplar and birch, with a couple stands of older pine that hadn't been cut. I found a couple old stands that were rotten, unsafe, and didn't have good access.
Here's a picture of the area that became the South end of the 2 acre long, skinny, winding plot.
I closed on the 80 acre parcel in November of 2017, in the middle of our 3 week gun season. Unfortunately, we had a pretty severe blizzard that weekend so didn't hunt but one day, for a couple hours. We didn't see any deer, but did see a pack of wolves.
I had Jeff Sturgis up to have a look and he gave me a working plan for the property.
There was a single winding trail right up the middle of the property. Having been logged about 15 years ago, everything else was a thick mess of poplar and birch, with a couple stands of older pine that hadn't been cut. I found a couple old stands that were rotten, unsafe, and didn't have good access.
Here's a picture of the area that became the South end of the 2 acre long, skinny, winding plot.